Whether we choose to recognize it or not, every day, each and every one of us is performing — we act a certain way at work, while we’re on the train, in an Uber, at the grocery store, how we talk to our mother, how we act with our friends, etc. In every moment of our lives we are performing the societal norms taught to us from a very young age. We do this everywhere… except maybe, our home. While this on-going collection seems to be a hollow portrait of people sitting on couches, On Your Couch is a sociological experiment exploring the concepts of identity and performance. During each 15-minute shoot, the subject is asked to sit in the center of their couch and then is given no other direction as I continuously take their photograph. The following collection showcases the result of disrupting a person’s place of comfort (their home and their couch) by placing an uncomfortable object (a camera) directly in front of them. Each photograph exhibits an individual’s nuanced reservations of being put in front of the camera, as well as the universal trends of how we are supposed to act when placed there.